Category: RIGs

Theresa May: Research Matters Winter 2011

Salmon, Women, and Rivers: Community-Based Performance Research by Theresa J. May, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts
Theresa J. May’s paper is now available online in the Winter 2011 issue of CSWS Research Matters. The UO Center for the Study of Women in Society supported May’s research with a Faculty Research Grant.
From the paper: […]

Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII

[ March 2, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 150 Columbia
University of Oregon

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In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the computer age.

Screening of “Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII” and a discussion with filmmaker LeAnn Erickson

LeAnn Erickson is an associate professor, Department of Film and Media Arts, […]

Symposium: “Place and Displacement in African American Literature”

[ March 2, 2012; 10:00 am to 4:30 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

Eve Dunbar (Vassar), “Place and Displacement in the Ethnographic and Literary Writings of Zora Neale Hurston”
Courtney Thorsson (U Oregon), “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes”
Emily Lordi (U Mass), “’Move’: Literary Historiography and the Placing of Lucille Clifton”
Salamishah Tillet (U Penn), “African Mailman: Nina Simone, Africa, and a Global Civil Rights Aesthetics”
Jennifer Williams (Goucher […]

“A New Epicurean Atlas of Oregon” Roundtable

[ February 8, 2012; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_10865" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Lorane Valley, Oregon—wine country"][/caption]

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330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Conference Room
UO campus
FITF Works-in-Progress Series
Sponsored by the Food in the Field Research Interest Group, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Jim Meacham, Senior Research Associate and Administrative and Research Director, InfoGraphics Lab, “A New Epicurean Atlas of Oregon” roundtable. Join us for […]

Food in the Field RIG: Reception for Dr. Julie Guthman

[ October 14, 2011; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Leona Tyler Conference Room, Graduate School
125 Chapman Hall
FITF Reception for Dr. Julie Guthman, UC-Santa Cruz
Join us for refreshments and lively conversation with Dr. Julie Guthman, visiting the University of Oregon Geography Department.

On October 13, Dr. Guthman will give a public lecture on her fascinating new book on the obesity epidemic, Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, […]

Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age: Gender, New Media & Technology Symposium

[ October 14, 2011 to October 15, 2011. ] Knight Law Center, Room 184
University of Oregon campus
3 p.m.–6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday

Gender, New Media and Technology Symposium: Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age

For decades, feminist media scholars have analyzed media production, consumption, and distribution across media industries and historical periods, laying a critical, historiographical, and theoretical foundation for […]